Sometimes? A lot of the time the point of therapy is to challenge your statements and get you to the heart of the issue so you can mend it or recognize things that are off base and handle things differently. A lot of the relationship is meant to be a supportive kind of conflict so that you can get better. Sometimes people really do need validation, but other times they need to be challenged to be improved. As it stands today, AI models can't challenge you in the way a human therapist can.

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JSteph22 3 days ago | parent [-]

Therapists are incentivized to tell the people who paid them what they want to hear.

	▲	jmbwell 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Any field has hacks. Telling someone what they want to hear and helping get someone where they want to be are different things. Quality professionals help people reach their goals without judgment or presumption. That goes for mental health professionals as well as any professional field.
	▲	szundi 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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